Quotes About Music

If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.

Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.

There are only two things: love, all sorts of love, with pretty girls, and the music of New Orleans or Duke Ellington. Everything else ought to go, because everything else is ugly.

I love to make music, I love to get tattoos...That's just what I love. If I wasn't getting paid I'd still do it.

You must play for the love of music. Perfect technique is not as important as making music from the heart.

Jazz is played from the heart. You can even live by it. Always love it.

On those who overanalyze his music: When you tear the wings off a butterfly, it is no longer a butterfly

If songs were lines in a conversation, the situation would be fine . . .

In Hungary all native music, in its origin, is divided naturally into melody destined for song or melody for the dance.

It's about the music, it's not about just showing people what you can do with a piece of wood with strings on it

Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.

I look at radio as gone … Piracy is the new radio, that's how music gets around.

Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.

Paul Ryan's love for Rage Against The Machine is amusing, because he is the embodiment of the machine that our music has been raging against for two decades

It doesn't matter to me what is going on today because my music encompasses every kind of mood that exists in human beings. That's my stick.

I don't pay attention to sales because it's not about that for me. It's about the music. Music is all I have.

I've always written songs that were confessional, acoustic, wordy - my writing style matches my personality. The music always has to match the mouth it comes out of.

If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.

From the heaviest of the heavy to classical to country, that's what I listen to, I listen to a variety and I enjoy good music, good songs.

It is our firm conviction that mankind will live the happier when it has learned to live with music more worthily. Whoever works to promote this end, in one way or another, has not lived in vain.

I was meant to be a composer and will be I'm sure. Don't ask me to try to forget this unpleasant thing and go play football - please.

I've never had a real job in my life. I didn't learn anything, I was terrible at school. It was just this thing. Music was all I wanted to do.

My music has been a sort of personal therapy. It's got me out of tough times, it has been the friend that I needed, when I didn't have a friend there.

In some instances, music is actually better than the spoken word, because it doesn't need to be understood.